Quotes of: Candidate Keyword

I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

David Herbert Donald

You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is. I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on.

Don Imus

I believe that presidential candidates actually have a responsibility to point out substantive differences: to point out perspectives that are different.

John Edwards

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

Jeff Greenfield

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

Jim Lehrer

Preparation is based on one driving force for me and that is to be relaxed enough to be able to listen to what the candidates are saying and react appropriately.

Jim Lehrer

I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.

Peter Camejo

It is never a perfect time or a right time to step aside. But for me, this is the time. I want to share with you my decision that I will not be a candidate for any office in November of 2014.

Tom Latham

Dr. Yen Lo: His brain has not only been washed, as they say... It has been dry cleaned.

The Manchurian Candidate

Raymond Shaw: You couldn't have stopped them, the army couldn't have stopped them. So I had to.

The Manchurian Candidate

Marco: [During the Kung Fu fight with Chunjin] What was Raymond doing with his hands?

The Manchurian Candidate

Marco: [During the Kung Fu fight with Chunjin] How did the old ladies turn into Russians?

The Manchurian Candidate

Raymond Shaw: Put away your Penguin Freud, Diana. And your crystal ball.

The Manchurian Candidate

Elections are a competition with only one winner. Giving more money to the opponent every time one speaks on behalf of a favored candidate discourages the speech that triggers the matching funds.

Bradley A. Smith

I also do not like the idea of soft money, these issue ads - people don't know where the money is coming from, millions and millions of dollars outside of the control of a candidate - there's no accountability.

Scott McCallum

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Franz Grillparzer

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Rick Perlstein

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

Alfred Nobel

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Antonio Villaraigosa

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.

Bill Dedman